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Traditional Woodworking 1 Registration

$50.00

The Basics:

  • Prerequisite: None

  • Instructor Ben Masterson

  • Full Session | Monday afternoons 12-4 or Monday evenings 5-9 pm beginning August 11, 2025 and running 16 weeks.

  • 410 Memorial Park Drive. Elkin, NC 28621

  • Each class is limited to 6 students.

Registration: $50

  • The registration fee is taken out of the overall tuition cost.

  • If registration is open, placement is likely but not guaranteed.

  • Any student not placed will be added to the programs wait list in the order of the earliest registration.

  • Registration may not open to the general public every semester.

  • Placement is generally confirmed within three (3) business days of registration.

Tuition:

  • Tuition will be billed once placement is confirmed.

  • Our Full Session is billed in one (1) payment of $940 or (4) four payments of $258. Our one payment option is offered at a 10% discount over our monthly payment billing option.

Course Overview:

In this program students will learn the centuries-old techniques of traditional joinery as they build their own hand-crafted projects from local woods such as walnut, maple, oak, pine, and poplar. In this program we will work through a broad scope of skills from hand hewing and riving green wood to cutting intricate dovetail and mortise and tenon joinery.

Students will become proficient at maintaining and working with traditional tools such as iron and wooden hand planes, rip, crosscut, frame and dovetail saws, chisels and gouges, froes, draw-knives, hewing axes, augers, brace and bits, and turning tools. We will be working mostly at traditional joinery benches, but will also have the opportunity to use shaving horses and spring pole lathes.

Projects Included:

  • Hand tools | oak mallet, square, marking gauge, bow saw, tool trug

  • Dovetailed candle boxes with sliding lids

  • Six board chest/hall bench with decorative feet and forged nails

Policies:

  • By registering you have read and agree to all safety and billing policies outlined on the program main page.

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The Basics:

  • Prerequisite: None

  • Instructor Ben Masterson

  • Full Session | Monday afternoons 12-4 or Monday evenings 5-9 pm beginning August 11, 2025 and running 16 weeks.

  • 410 Memorial Park Drive. Elkin, NC 28621

  • Each class is limited to 6 students.

Registration: $50

  • The registration fee is taken out of the overall tuition cost.

  • If registration is open, placement is likely but not guaranteed.

  • Any student not placed will be added to the programs wait list in the order of the earliest registration.

  • Registration may not open to the general public every semester.

  • Placement is generally confirmed within three (3) business days of registration.

Tuition:

  • Tuition will be billed once placement is confirmed.

  • Our Full Session is billed in one (1) payment of $940 or (4) four payments of $258. Our one payment option is offered at a 10% discount over our monthly payment billing option.

Course Overview:

In this program students will learn the centuries-old techniques of traditional joinery as they build their own hand-crafted projects from local woods such as walnut, maple, oak, pine, and poplar. In this program we will work through a broad scope of skills from hand hewing and riving green wood to cutting intricate dovetail and mortise and tenon joinery.

Students will become proficient at maintaining and working with traditional tools such as iron and wooden hand planes, rip, crosscut, frame and dovetail saws, chisels and gouges, froes, draw-knives, hewing axes, augers, brace and bits, and turning tools. We will be working mostly at traditional joinery benches, but will also have the opportunity to use shaving horses and spring pole lathes.

Projects Included:

  • Hand tools | oak mallet, square, marking gauge, bow saw, tool trug

  • Dovetailed candle boxes with sliding lids

  • Six board chest/hall bench with decorative feet and forged nails

Policies:

  • By registering you have read and agree to all safety and billing policies outlined on the program main page.

The Basics:

  • Prerequisite: None

  • Instructor Ben Masterson

  • Full Session | Monday afternoons 12-4 or Monday evenings 5-9 pm beginning August 11, 2025 and running 16 weeks.

  • 410 Memorial Park Drive. Elkin, NC 28621

  • Each class is limited to 6 students.

Registration: $50

  • The registration fee is taken out of the overall tuition cost.

  • If registration is open, placement is likely but not guaranteed.

  • Any student not placed will be added to the programs wait list in the order of the earliest registration.

  • Registration may not open to the general public every semester.

  • Placement is generally confirmed within three (3) business days of registration.

Tuition:

  • Tuition will be billed once placement is confirmed.

  • Our Full Session is billed in one (1) payment of $940 or (4) four payments of $258. Our one payment option is offered at a 10% discount over our monthly payment billing option.

Course Overview:

In this program students will learn the centuries-old techniques of traditional joinery as they build their own hand-crafted projects from local woods such as walnut, maple, oak, pine, and poplar. In this program we will work through a broad scope of skills from hand hewing and riving green wood to cutting intricate dovetail and mortise and tenon joinery.

Students will become proficient at maintaining and working with traditional tools such as iron and wooden hand planes, rip, crosscut, frame and dovetail saws, chisels and gouges, froes, draw-knives, hewing axes, augers, brace and bits, and turning tools. We will be working mostly at traditional joinery benches, but will also have the opportunity to use shaving horses and spring pole lathes.

Projects Included:

  • Hand tools | oak mallet, square, marking gauge, bow saw, tool trug

  • Dovetailed candle boxes with sliding lids

  • Six board chest/hall bench with decorative feet and forged nails

Policies:

  • By registering you have read and agree to all safety and billing policies outlined on the program main page.


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